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4776. Jesus and the Beggar

Luke 18:35-43

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we are always sure to say that we will take whatever he gives us without a complaint. That is a little bit the way it is with a beggar. Every day he waits for people to bless him with some of the things that they have, and he takes the gift that is given and gives thanks. There is a story in the Bible about a blind man who was a beggar who heard of the coming of Jesus. He began to call for Jesus to come and heal him. At first Jesus did not hear him, but he called out ...

4777. The Key to Life

John 8:31-41

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... what Jesus teaches and believe it, then your mind is free and you have freedom. You can be hurt and made to stay in a hospital room with bandages and casts, but if you know what Jesus teaches and believe in Jesus, you are free. One of the very best gifts that Jesus gives is the truth and the courage to use the truth. When you have the truth you have the key to life and the way that you want to live. When you put the key into the lock it opens. When you put truth into your life then ...

4778. Little Things Affect Little Minds

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Christians and churches from their very beginnings. The Apostle Paul wrote several letters to the church at Corinth. This church was being disturbed by doctrinal and ethical problems. Some were throwing up issues like speaking in tongues, prophecy, who possessed the greatest gifts, etc. With great courage, and, I feel certain a little impatience, Paul wrote these now famous words to that church: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became ...

4779. The Good Samaritan Didn’t Leave His Name

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... there would be a John Samaritan commemorative medal. And I can see the bumper stickers now, "Come and hear John Samaritan, the Chaplain of Jericho Street." Afterwards, the audience could purchase the latest book by John Samaritan, I’m God’s Great Gift to Man, telling once again the true story of how John Samaritan personally saved a beaten, bedraggled traveler. Perhaps a beautifully engraved invitation will come in the mail one day. The invitation will read: "You are cordially invited to attend the 10th ...

4780. A Higher Form of Love: The Good Neighbor

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and feeling sorry for others in our world, but not much appreciation, time, and care. It takes a great deal of courage and insight into human nature to appreciate problem people. Yet this is where Jesus was unique. He actually celebrated the grace and gifts of God he found in tax collectors, prostitutes, publicans, and sinners. He appreciated and gave time and care to people who would never return that love. The true person of God loves unconditionally. We would be fooling ourselves were we to think that a ...

4781. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... teaches the third grade. Many of the children are underprivileged, but all of them delightful. One little black boy who had grown to love his teacher, and wanted to do something for her, brought her a leaf to school one day. The teacher immediately sensed that it was a special gift, so she said: "O I just love it. I’ll take it home and put it in water. My mother has a green thumb, and I just know it will grow!" The teacher resumed her duties, the boy went back to his desk, but in a few minutes was waving ...

4782. When Love Runs Out of Breath

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... is the most overworked, misunderstood, least-practiced word of our time! The whole subject of love is too big for us, and the practice of it is almost completely beyond us. Think of what love is not: Hugs and kisses and squeezes, Little gifts to the United Fund, Red Cross, and Easter Seal Drive, Songs about love, Banners and buttons, Posters and cute little cartoon figures with impish, childish faces, Easy sentimentality, Doing what is convenient (because it is "expected of us," or someone will remark how ...

4783. Forgiveness Unlimited

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... that our patient heavenly Father has done for us. Let’s remember again Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Galilee, and Jerusalem. Let’s remember the cross and the agony, and whipping, and torment, and sweat, and blood, and suffering there. All this was done so the gift of forgiveness might be offered to us over and over again by a loving and patient Father. Then, when we have that firm and renewed in our mind, let’s be about forgiving our fellow persons. And let us especially begin within our own fellowship ...

4784. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... It was Jesus’ point here, that if we sin we are not free. In fact, we are slaves. The Scripture, the message of our Savior, talks of liberation. Paul puts it ... "All men have sinned and are far away from God’s saving presence. But by the free gift of God’s grace, they are all put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free" (Romans 3:23-24). The Scripture promises liberation. It is the sense and realization of that which gave the New Testament its atmosphere. Thus, it is the happiest book ...

4785. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... in prison - these are the deeds that count in the kingdom of Christ. Jesus, in telling this parable, wanted us to know that the little spontaneous, loving gestures are the ones that are significant. We so often make the mistake of thinking in terms of gifts of a thousand dollars or large endowments or the spectacular work or contribution: Those surely help in the kingdom, but we must always look for the opportunity to respond to the simple, human help of the people we meet each day. "The criterion of ...

4786. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... are created as rational creatures. If Christ is not risen from the dead, as St. Paul tells us, what a bunch of boobs we are! We don’t have any really intelligent or rational reason to go on living. But if Christ is risen from the dead, giving us the gift of eternal life, then we should live in a kind of joyful radiance. Back in the year A.D.125, a Greek by the name of Aristides wrote one of his friends about a new religion called Christianity. He was trying to explain the reason for its popularity and its ...

4787. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... without a shadow of a doubt, that the Risen Christ, living, is with me. Tomorrow I may be talking like the knight. But this is an honest statement. It points out the struggle that you and I will go through until the day we die. But there is always that gift that God calls forth in us in his Holy Spirit - our faith! And I know, and perhaps you know, or you should, that the only way you can fill that emptiness in your life is fall down before him, the Risen Christ, and say "My Lord and my God!"

4788. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in this celebration, for we have not officially joined together in communing with Christ through his Sacrament. It is the tragic irony of the history of the church that that Blessed Sacrament, with which we receive the sign and seal of our redemption, the gift that our Lord left for us to make us One Body, part of his Body, is the thing that has separated us. Traditionally, it has separated our tradition from your tradition, our tradition from the tradition of other Protestants. In this regard, please ...

4789. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... of sins" (Matthew 26:28). Here, then, is the richest source for Paul’s doctrine of grace, redemption, and salvation, summarized in such an assertion as this: "Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith" (Romans 3:23-25). It is a mistake, then, to stress, as Baur and Harnack did, the difference between Paul’s theology and the ...

4790. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... or bounties on a natural plane and conditioned by merit. In the imperial inscriptions of the first century the word takes on new potential. It is often preceded by an adjective such as "divine" or "immortal" or "eternal" and designates a royal favor or gift to some community by a Nero or a Caligula. Such usage may have influenced Paul to adopt this word to represent the sovereign self-giving love of God. Furthermore, in the mystery cults the word had taken on still another meaning, namely, potent charm ...

4791. Salvation as Hope

Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). The Spirit binds believers to their Lord and to one another with ties of faith and love which death cannot break. Christ alone "has immortality" (1 Timothy 6:16), while ours is a "mortal nature" which must "put on immortality" as his gift (1 Corinthians 15:54). To be in Christ, whether in life or in death, gives the concept of human immortality its only positive content before the final resurrection. What happens, then, at death to one who is in Christ? Paul’s answer is that he is ...

4792. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... to sin, pluck it out and throw it from you." Those are strong words, and though they are not to be taken literally, we must not miss their message. Too much is at stake! Sin leads to too horrible a state and robs one of too precious a gift. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his college-age daughter once, "Whatever your sins are I hope you never get to justify them to yourself."10 Jesus said, "Don’t justify them, but eradicate them. And use even drastic surgery to keep them out of your life!" 1. "The Atlanta ...

4793. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Lathem, Editor. Interviews With Robert Frost, p. 156. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. 5. Van Wyck Brooks. From A Writer’s Notebook, p. 2. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc., 1958. 6. Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Gift From The Sea. p. 35. New York: Pantheon Books, Inc., 1955. 7. W. Robertson NicoIl. Princes Of The Church, p. 223. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, 1921. 8. "Christianity Today," March 26, 1971, p. 17. 9. Plutarch. The Lives Of The Noble Grecians ...

4794. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the disciples came to him privately and asked him why they had not been able to heal him. Jesus answered, "Because of your little faith." They should have had more faith than they had. And so should we! How does it come? How do we get it? It is a gift of God, and yet he gives it only conditionally - that is, as persons meet the conditions. We grow in faith as we open ourselves to him, as we live in obedience to him, as we exercise the little trust that we already have. There are plenty of mountains, in our ...

4795. EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... : Who do you say that I am? PETER: You’re asking us? JESUS: Yes. Who do you say that I am? MARY MAGDALENE: Tell him, Peter. Speak for all of us. PETER: We believe that you’re the Son of God. JESUS: Be happy to know this. It’s a gift to you from my Father in heaven. JUDAS: But, Lord, we’re just a few. The people that have the power ... JESUS: What about them? JUDAS: They’re against us. JESUS: What do you advise? JUDAS: What I’ve been saying right along. Get them before they get us. PETER ...

4796. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... power he devoted to it is power sufficient. In our world have we reason for hope? Yes, I am confident we have many reasons; but had we no other, the Christian Faith is reason enough. Take these insights, my friend; I offer them to you as a gift for your future. Take them; and of these materials build your image of tomorrow; and in the light of that image always see everything that stands this side of its fulfillment; and under the power and inspiration of it, move victoriously through all the days between ...

4797. The Time of Our Visitation

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... times my Lord Christ may have occasion to say to me, "Leonard Mann, I have been looking at you all morning, and you haven’t looked at me once." All morning? Yes, perhaps, and maybe longer. Maybe, for some, an entire lifetime. Christ comes to you and me with the gift of forgiveness and peace and freedom and hope and salvation and life. And he is knocking at our door and waiting for us to open it. He is looking at us, and waiting for us to turn and look at him. The time of our visitation is now. Look ...

4798. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... stage he speaks. But if we are to understand what he says, we are under the necessity of tuning out a lot of discordant sounds, and tuning in the voice that speaks the message of forgiving and redeeming love in the personal language of heaven’s "unspeakable gift" to us. The language of love is, most deeply, extra-verbal; and it arises from somewhere beyond and below the vocal cords, and it is received somewhere in the heart-regions of life beyond the reach of mind. What God is saying is person-to-person ...

4799. We are Not Simply "Now" People

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... from which we were hewn. An illustration that points to this idea involves Napoleon. He is reputed to have been one of the world’s champion leaders of men. He could, it is said, inspire people as few men have been able to do. By this gift, Napoleon rose from a general in the French Republican Army to Emperor of a vast kingdom. He is attributed with saying, to his tired, worn soldiers whose morale was pitifully low, during his campaign to win Egypt, "From yonder pyramids, forty centuries are looking down ...

4800. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , when you were born, the forces of selfishness and sin had a head-start on you. In your natural state you can’t tune in on spiritual truth. Your frequencies are foiled up." The Bible says it this way: "The natural man does not receive the gifts of God for they are spiritually discerned." The first birth everyone has is a natural, physical one. The second birth is by the Holy Spirit. When that second birth happens, God takes over the controls in a life, restraining the forces of evil and selfishness. His ...

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